Catch Hospitality Group is opening The Corner Store at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on November 9, marking the SoHo restaurant's first location outside New York City. Reservations are live now, and the move deepens a partnership between CHG and MGM Resorts International that began when CATCH opened at ARIA Resort & Casino in 2018.
For operators and brand developers tracking how independent restaurant concepts scale into casino hospitality, the structure here is instructive: CHG retains its culinary identity — Chef Michael Vignola leads the kitchen alongside Executive Chef Daniel Bernardo — while MGM provides the real estate and captive guest volume that a standalone launch cannot guarantee. It is a co-development model that transfers brand equity without the capital exposure of a cold-market opening.
The Menu Strategy
The culinary program runs an ingredient-first take on elevated American classics, with signatures including Lobster & Caviar Rolls with tarragon-celery remoulade, a 72-hour slow-roasted Westholme Australian ribeye Wagyu French Dip, and The Corner Store Caesar with everything bagel croutons and cream cheese croquettes. A Las Vegas-exclusive Butcher's Counter anchors the premium meat program with Rosewood Ranch Wagyu Tomahawk and Wagyu Porterhouse — a product-tier add that would be harder to sustain in a smaller Manhattan footprint.
The beverage program, developed by CHG Beverage Director Lucas Robinson and The Cosmopolitan's Head of Mixology Gedeon Tsegaye, centers the Martini as a category driver. The wine list carries the weight of two credentialed voices: CHG Wine Director Emily Buse, recognized by Wine Spectator as one of the top 50 sommeliers in the U.S., and MGM Resorts Master Sommelier and Executive Director of Wine Douglas Kim. Dual-curation of this kind signals to procurement buyers and spirits suppliers that the back bar is built for negotiation leverage, not impulse purchasing.
Design as Operator Intelligence
Rockwell Group — the firm behind the original SoHo location — designed the Las Vegas outpost, a continuity decision worth noting. When a resort operator keeps the original design firm in place for an expansion build-out, it compresses the briefing cycle, preserves brand consistency, and reduces the revision risk that inflates FF&E timelines. The result is a multi-room layout — main bar, Martini Room centered on a green onyx bar, main dining room, and a private dining room for up to 24 guests — that maps directly onto the group dining and events revenue model casino properties require to justify premium restaurant square footage.
What This Signals for Brand Launch
CHG's pipeline tells a broader story. The group has Corner Store slated for a new concept at 9 West 57th Street in 2027, and the Catch brand itself now operates in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Aspen, Miami Beach, Dallas, Scottsdale, and Mexico City. The sequencing — New York flagship, resort partnership, additional standalone markets — is a repeatable playbook that brand developers and restaurant investors should map against their own expansion timelines.
For suppliers and vendors, the Las Vegas opening creates a procurement event: a new property operating seven nights a week with a distinct menu from the existing CATCH at ARIA means two separate buying relationships inside the same MGM ecosystem. That kind of account concentration rewards suppliers who can demonstrate program-level consistency across multi-unit hospitality operators.
Written by Michael Politz, Author of Guide to Restaurant Success: The Proven Process for Starting Any Restaurant Business From Scratch to Success (ISBN: 978-1-119-66896-1), Founder of Food & Beverage Magazine, the leading online magazine and resource in the industry. Designer of the Bluetooth logo and recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top 40 Under 40" for founding American Wholesale Floral, Politz is also the Co-founder of the Proof Awards and the CPG Awards and a partner in numerous consumer brands across the food and beverage sector.
